[imp] Case sensitive user names

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:20:34 -0500


Quoting David Richards <d.richards@qut.edu.au>:

> We are seeing a problem with IMP, where a user enters their username in
> uppercase, our authentication just ignores the case, but the IMAP server
> is case sensitive.  Is it possible, somewhere in the code, to change
> whatever username the user type in to be changed to lowercase?

You can put in a local hack, but it'll stay that. Most systems are case 
sensitive, and in general we can't really make any assumptions about the 
username.

-chuck

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